“Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire whe...” — Chris Pine Quote

“Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.”

“Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.”

“The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.”

“I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.”

“So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.”

“I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.”